Saturday, 14 November 2015

Wake up to the madness of the city
Say hello it's a brand new day
Brush my teeth read the paper
Everything is changing so fast it stays the same
Cars attack the city street
City sidewalk - city heat
People push and people fly
No one laughs and no one cries
Someone save me.

Look up - an office building
Stares right back indignantly
Look down - my feet keep moving
Shuffling to the city's endless beat
Billboards tell me what to buy
How to dress and how to die
Traffic signals starts to change
Madness starts all over again
Someone save me.

Wake up to the madness of the city
Close my eyes and fly to mars
A man jolts my arm I swing out madly
He swings back and I see stars
I curse my world beneath my breath
I curse myself I curse what's left
People push - people fly
No one laughs - no one cries
Someone save me

Take it if you will
Take it if you can -
Or refuse it - I will understand
It's just some flowers
My family just moved in around the corner
Will you be my friend
I touched her on the shoulder
She was fourteen I was barely older

Take it if you will
Take it if you can -
Or refuse it - I will understand
It's just a key
My parents are going away for the weekend
Will you stay with me
It felt my body trembling
High school days were nearly at an end then

[Chorus:]
Time was a blur of emotions
Spinning so fast

And time was a rocket engine
With no end and no beginning
But all time stopped when she said "yes"

Take it if you will
Take it if you can
Or refuse it - you know I'll never ask again
It's just a ring
At best it's just a symbol of everything
If I can share my life with you
Standing naked in my fear
I could not face her
Then I broke down - my arms embraced her

[Repeat chorus]

Take it if you will
Take it if you can
Or refuse it
That's how our lives began

So you flung your fist high in the air
But the world remained the same
And all the demonstrations
Filtered out through graduation
And the times that were a changing
Never changed
Freedom takes on new meaning
When you have a family of five
And peace and revolution dissolved in its own solution
When you're fighting for your life
Just to survive

It's then you've gotta

Hold on - for what you believe in
Hold on - don't let it fade
Still you've gotta
Be strong - find yourself a reason
You never change the world
But just the same
You've gotta hold on stronger
Each and every day
When the night creeps in so hollow
When the silence makes you scream
When you're so damned scared of failure
When the world's burned out it's saviors
When you're feeling too vulnerable to dream

It's then you've gotta
Hold on - for what you believe in
Hold on - don't let it fade
Still you've gotta
Be strong - find yourself a reason
You never change the world
But just the same
You've gotta hold on stronger
Or else you'll fade

Thursday, 12 November 2015

The seed of music within me
Has bloomed into a flower
And though it claims to set me free
I'm lost within it's power
Lord don't let this crazy world
Make a jukebox out of me
Let the songs keep flowing
Strong and naturally

The gift of music is the key
To all my tears my laughter
And though it claims to set me free
It reigns my life as master
Lord don't let this crazy world
Make a jukebox out of me
Let the songs keep flowing

Strong and naturally

And oh let me say this peacefully
Forget the dreams forget the fantasies
Let me make it honestly
Or not at all

And oh let me say this peacefully
Forget the dreams forget the fantasies
Let me make it honestly
Or not at all
And ho let me say this forcefully
Forget the dreams erase the fantasies
Let me make it honestly
Or not at all

Woman please don't try
Explaining how or why - I understand
Love's too beautiful to explain
And nothing can be wrong
With loving him again
He really loves you
I can see him in your eyes
And like a fountain
You offer no disguise
And babe, I'm glad you've never tried

And the night times that we shared
Made me gratefully aware
That I was happy
So real so undefined
And I just want you to be you
In a lifestyle undefined
You really love him
I can see you in his eyes
And like a fountain
He offers no disguise
And babe, I'm glad he's never tried

I read somewhere
That grown men never cry
Their heart just freezes over
For a day
So instead - here's my masculine
Goodbye
May love be with you all the way
My guitar does all my crying
Anyway
There's happiness combined
With the pain within my mind
You gave me feelings
That I never knew existed
And all you'd do is laugh
And my defenses would be lifted
And I love you
You're sketched so softly in my eyes
And like a fountain
I offer no disguise
And babe, I'm glad I've never tried

Looking back at public school
Reading playboy magazine
Insisting that the articles
Were the only things we'd read
Thinking then that love was meant to
Conquer
And if a girl said she liked you
Then you'd bonk her
Don't try to lay that mush on me

Looking back a high school
Getting drunk for the local dance
Lonely boys - nervous girls
Grappling with romance
Thinking then that love
Meant something frightening
A sudden end as brutal
As bolts of lightening
Don't know what it was, but it scared me

[Chorus:]
From one night stands to wedding bands
To struggling to stay free
Watching time move faster
As hold on helplessly
As love smoulders waiting to be tamed
We grow older staying much the same

Looking back a college life
Seemed like such a compromise
Unsure of my direction
Using brains as my disguise
Thinking then that love meant to
Remember
You only felt it's warmth
When you surrendered
Don't know what it was, but it scared me

Welcome baby boy
To a brand new world
May the tears fall like a rainstorm
From your eyes
Looks like life kinda took you
By surprise
You're so tiny that it scares me
Your nakedness just stares at me
And I never thought my head
Could spin so high

Welcome baby boy
Don't look so confused
One day I'll try to sit down and explain
That the love that brought you here
Will never change
You're so helpless that it shakes me
Yet so charged with life you make me

So happy that I think I'm gonna cry

Life has come to greet your child
Play it safe- play it wild
Reach for the truth beyond
The rules beyond the games
Life is yours and yours along
Free to settle - free to roam
Free to grow - free to change
Free to fight to stay the same

Welcome baby boy
To a brand new world
May the tears fall like a rainstorm
From your eyes
Looks like life kinda took you
By surprise
Oh surprise